Psychology.--Walter Pater.--The poetry of Donne.--A pessimist poet [Giacomo Leopardi]--Anthony Trollope.--An odd sort of popular book.--Alexandre Dumas.--A French Lamb [Jules Lemaître]--A great English portrait-painter [Edward Hyde, earl of Clarendon]--A gentleman of Athens [Xenophon]--Letters of a Roman gentleman [Pliny, the younger]--Ovid among the Goths.--Portrait of a saint [Francis of Sales]--Appendix: Suggestions for a closer acquaintance with Saint-Beuve.